Danielle Austin – Registered Clinical Counsellor

Danielle Austin takes a warm, compassionate, trauma-informed, and integrative approach to psychotherapy. She creates a supportive space where clients can feel safe exploring their lived experiences, better understand themselves, and start building the life they deserve and desire.

Danielle is particularly interested in supporting women and children who have experienced complex, relational, and developmental trauma. Her clinical focus is grounded in an understanding of how early experiences can shape our sense of safety, relationships, self-worth, emotional regulation, and the ways we respond to ourselves and others.

Danielle integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) techniques into her practice, alongside other evidence-informed approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She is especially drawn to IFS and its compassionate understanding of the different “parts” of ourselves that develop to protect us through difficult experiences.

Rather than viewing difficult thoughts, emotions, or behaviours as something that needs to be eliminated, Danielle works collaboratively with clients to develop curiosity and compassion toward the underlying needs and experiences that may be driving these patterns. She believes that healing involves creating greater internal safety, strengthening connection with oneself, and developing new ways of responding that feel more aligned with who we want to be.

Danielle also recognizes the therapeutic value of experiences that extend beyond traditional talk therapy. When appropriate, she incorporates opportunities for connection with nature and creativity. Danielle recognizes that these experiences can support reflection, emotional processing, grounding, and connection. She believes that healing can take many forms and that therapeutic work should honour an individual’s unique way of understanding themself and the world around them.

Danielle believes that clients are the experts in their lives. Her role is to walk alongside them with compassion, curiosity, and respect as they develop a deeper understanding of themselves and create lives that feel safer, more connected, and more authentic.

If you do not have insurance and are paying out of pocket, please contact Danielle to discuss her sliding scale options at [email protected] or 306-535-2511.

Specialties – issues:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Life transitions
  • Self-esteem
  • Stress
  • Relationship problems
  • Youth issues (bullying/school/anxiety)
  • Life skills
  • Identity

Specialties – modalities:

  • Acceptance commitment therapy (ACT)
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
  • Person-centred therapy

Client focus: youth (10+), adults, couples

Cost Per Session: $150/individual 50 mins | $225/individual 85 mins

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